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Obama, GOP agree on a name: 'Obamacare'

President Obama and his Republican critics do agree on one thing about the new health care law -- the term "Obamacare." Republicans once it more as a term of derision, but these days Obama himself is embracing

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President Obama and his Republican critics do agree on one thing about the new health care law -- the term "Obamacare."

At one time, Republicans used "Obamacare" almost exclusively as a term of derision; but these days, Obama himself is embracing the moniker.

"For the past few years, since I signed the Affordable Care Act, a lot of you have been enjoying new benefits and protections that you didn't before even if you didn't know they were coming from Obamacare," Obama told supporters during a health speech in Maryland on Thursday.

Using the word no less than 13 times, Obama also made an etymological prediction about the Republicans.

"Once it's working really well, I guarantee you they will not call it Obamacare," Obama said.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also used the term at least 13 times during a floor speech Thursday in which he predicted Obamacare's failure.

McConnell spokesman Don Stewart predicted that the president will eventually be the one dropping term "Obamacare."

"He's assuming that it will ever be 'working really well,' which is a really strange assumption given the near-daily news out of the White House of some new 'glitch' or delay," Stewart said. "The truth is that Obamacare costs too much and it isn't working the way they promised."